Thursday, July 8, 2010

Party!

>What a day! So Tired. Tired must be capatalized. And capatalized must be misspelled. Thats how tired I am. But I wanted to post a few pics for my mama/papa.... so here we go. This was my first "kid party." It feels like a milestone in parenting. When instead of the normal family deal... we invited 24 of our closest friends. And 23 came. And the one called and would have come except she thought it was tomorrow and was currently in Colorado. So I was pretty excited that everyone could come. The more the merrier right?? Than we should have been darn merry! And we were. We played a variety of games most of which I didn't get photographed bc I was busy running the games. Kids were instructed to bring a swimsuit and a squirt gun. When they first got there... they just did what little boys do.






Started squirting each other of course...daddy included.
















After the squirt gun war.... which I couldn't take more pics of for fear of getting squirted.... we played a game called human canvsas. I am pretty sure the parents present thought I had lost my mind. I gave them fingerpaints and told them to go ahead and draw on each other. I think it went over pretty well.


























































I will post some more tomorrow... but right now I am too tired to go on!

Saturday, July 3, 2010

3rd of July



Perhaps this will be post where I learn to add pics. If so... watch out. I may post every hour. Or we may have a rush on posts bc I feel the need to share all my pics from this year. Anyway. Family reunion today. What is soo handy about the family I married into.... is that I have actual friends in the family. Like ones I call, text, go to Bible study with... thus I never mind going to family things.... bc friends are there and its fun! Actually though.... I never minded going to family things anyway... I think they are a good time. Also.... my hubs has some pretty cool sisters... so as long as they are present... fun will be had. Allright.... lets see if I can do these pics.


Yeah!! I did it! Here is baby C3 sleeping his holiday away. Now I am going to try and do some more pics!







This is C2 jumping off the post.... he is yelling "to infinity and beyond"






This is pretty much how everyday goes for me.... lots of wrestling. And if the boys can wrestle their cousins... all the better.



Now if I could just figure out how to crop and make these smaller... we'd be in business.








This is C1 on the carosel... this is from today... but its the same rides we rode on Sunday. They were in heaven getting to ride rides with their cousins.






C2 is pretty sure he is the star of the show.















And the classic 4th of July image.... eating watermelon. Except I love his smile in the first pic... but the second his eyes are open so we have to just go with it.




















Then we had a grand finish with a train and some ice cream. Personally... I don't think the train looks like that much fun... but hey. I'm not 3. I love the pic with one of my nearest and dearest frennys. Isn't she pretty?









Allright. Now I am just adding pics because I can. And because fully one half of my followers is my mother.... I know she would love to see pics of the grandkids. Have a happy 4th!











We were trying to get C3 to smile.... he was 5 min before I retrieved the camera. As for when I got the camera... not so much. Come on.... you're almost 3 months old... haven't you learned how to smile on command yet? We'll give him a few more months. With brothers like these... and a cute daddy to hold you... whats not to smile about??

Friday, July 2, 2010

Good evening. Phew. I am one tired mama. I have just had one of those days where you clean literally all day... and in the end it doesn't really look that great because you have been cleaning all day with no time to pick up. If you know what I mean. I washed shower curtains, organized toys, threw away toys, retrieved toys that the boys rescued and threw them away again when they weren't looking, etc. etc. And now I am tired. And I have more laundry. I counted that I would be doing at a minimum 10 loads of laundry today. I think that I have upheld that. If the hubs would get home from irrigating... I would stop cleaning, have a pina colado and chat and fold. Bc I really love chatting and folding and watching the real housewives of New Jersey/New York. My main accomplishment of the day was getting the boys bathroom to not smell of urine. What is it with boys?? I cleaned the whole thing and it still smelled. Then I washed the trash can out... that took care of it. Is this what I have to look forward to for the next 20 years? Ugg.

Allright. That was a really uninteresting paragraph. Urine and curtains. That should be my title. So if someone googles urine they come up to my post. Anyway. Moving on.

Today on a break... I discoved a blog called something like "confessions of a bad mother." You could post what you did that made you a bad mother and it was anonamouys. (who really knows how to spell that word?) Thus... I was thinking of what I would confess. Lets see... here goes.

1. I can count on 1 hand the number of times I have given my baby a bath. He has had a few showers... but we were trying to think of the last time we washed him and we couldn't remember. How bad is that?? So I promptly washed him. PS I lotion his head so he always smells good.

2. My kids use my toothbrush. I can't keep track of thier toothbrushes for anything and thus they just use whoevers is around. And the next part of this... I told one of my dearest friends and I think it changed her opinion of me forever.... my kids squeeze the toothpaste out in a drawer... and after cleaning it up for the thousandth time.... I just started swiping from the pile. I know, thats gross. I wonder if the Frugal Girl would approve?

3. I didn't put sunscreen on my children any time for swimming lessons. And we were out for 2 hours a time. I didn't even think about it! Serioulsy I need to hand over my mom card.

But.... heres the thing. A lot of the confessions weren't like mine. Most were plain awful. One was... "I have 8 children and I never hugged them or told them I loved them." Or, "I have playing with my children, its so boring." "My 15 yr old ran away and I don't want her back." Yikes. I expected light hearted confessions. I wanted to answer each of them. Like go hug your 8 children... what are you waiting for? I don't think I will be visiting that site again. And now I have confessed here so I guess I don't need to!

Shout out to my latest follower. My mom. Note: She could never go to this site because she was/is an amazing mother. She should create a site called "Confessions of an Amazing Mother." How bout it mom? You should totally blog.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Whew. Overwelmed by the upcoming week and weekend.... thus the perfect time to blog. Today I am loading up all 3 boys and heading into town... approx 45 min away to wally world. Must have supplies for a holiday weekend. No doubt it will be fill with NP's finest...thinking of a trip to the park for lunch... but we'll see how generous I am feeling after shopping. On the way it always sounds like a good time idea. Tonight we have our final swimming lesson. Kind of sad about that... I love hanging out at the pool for 2 hours a night. I mainly socialize and watch my kids have fun.... then we go home and they are starving and exhausted. Last night they went to bed by 7:30 and I got a ton of work done after they were asleep. Like folding loads of laundry. Where I discovered my middle child has 15 pairs of jeans. Who needs that many jeans? No wonder I am doing laundry all the time. At swimming C2 stood on the edge of the pool and whipped down his pants to go.... I suppose he thought no one would notice?? I was holding the baby so I jumped up and tried to stop him... but I am not sure that a 3 yr old has the ability to stop in middle. My friends of course thought this was hilarious... I was mortified.

This weekend we have a family reunion on Saturday... which is at a park so that should be fun. Then the 4th of July where we are having people over as well as then going to a bbq. Then next week starts C1's 6th birthday celebration! I am having his first kids party. Which of course involves inviting everyone. I have this thing about leaving people or kids out. I hate it. Which is funny...bc if my kids aren't invited to a party or if just C1 is invited.... I honestly don't care. Its just... as for my house.... I want to be the house where you can bring the little brother who feels left out and he will get a goodie bag. Thus... I currently have approx 20 kids invited. But we are having a pool/squirt gun/water balloon/slip n slide party so I really feel like it doesn't matter how many kids you have. Now I am just praying the weather holds out!

Allright... hopefully it will be a great weekend celebrating the 4th. This is one of my favorite holidays... the decorations are cute... no mad shopping for presents.... and you just gather with friends and family to relax and have fun. So grateful to the military past and present that makes this day possible! Thank you... thank you... THANK YOU!!!!! Shout out to my dad here!!